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Friday, July 7, 2017

RIP David Lewis Yewdall

Rest in Peace: Sound Editor David Yewdall

Deadline

By Jonathan Barkan

July 6, 2017

It is with a very heavy heart that we report the passing of David Yewdall,
who died Tuesday, July 4th, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 66
years old.

Yewdall was the sound editor on films such as Escape from New York, The Thing,
Twilight Zone: The Movie, and The Fifth Element. He also worked
on Return of the Living Dead III, Halloween 5, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream
Warriors, and Evil Dead II.

Steve Lee, a friend and fellow sound man, told Deadline, “The Thing is
arguably his masterpiece. All those frightening creature sounds he created are
just fantastic, and just as scary today as they were when the film opened 35
years ago — almost to the week.”

On top of his work in the sound world, Yewdall was also a teacher and an
author whose book Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound was released
in 1999 and has had four editions since then. Yewdall was working on the
fifth edition at the time of his death.

We send our deepest condolences to David’s family and friends during this
very sad time.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.